The course focuses on the analysis methods of synthetic or mineral nanomaterials. Choice of an appropriate analytical method has crucial importance in revealing the correlations between structure, composition, and properties of the materials. General trend on in-situ and combined analytical techniques will be also discussed.
1. Introduction: analytical methods in inorganic and solid-state chemistry
2. Scanning electron microscope for morphology, structure, and element composition analysis
3. Transmission electron microscope for morphology, structure, and element composition analysis
4. Thermal analysis methods
5. Powder X-ray diffraction for nanomaterials study
6. Methods of porous structure study
7. Infrared and Raman spectroscopies
8. Special case of crystal growth: spontaneous scrolling and strain-related size limitations